Skip to content
OpenAdvisories
Medium RHSA-2026:5602 1 CVE

Red Hat Security Advisory: vim security update

Published Mar 25, 2026 · Updated Oct 17, 2026

Ecosystem: Red Hat

Fixed packages 4

ReleasePackageFixed in
Red Hat · RHEL 9 enterprise_linux:9::appstream vim-enhanced 2:8.2.2637-23.el9_7.1
Red Hat · RHEL 9 enterprise_linux:9::appstream vim-X11 2:8.2.2637-23.el9_7.1
Red Hat · RHEL 9 enterprise_linux:9::baseos vim 2:8.2.2637-23.el9_7.1
Red Hat · RHEL 9 enterprise_linux:9::baseos vim-minimal 2:8.2.2637-23.el9_7.1

Vulnerabilities 1

  • Medium 6.6
    CVE-2026-25749

    Heap Overflow in Vim

    Vim is an open source, command line text editor. Prior to version 9.1.2132, a heap buffer overflow vulnerability exists in Vim's tag file resolution logic when processing the 'helpfile' option. The vulnerability is located in the get_tagfname() function in sr…

    vim vim vim vim Debian Ubuntu Azure Linux Alpine

References

  • article
    https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2437843
  • advisory
    https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/advisories/2026/rhsa-2026_5602.json
  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-25749
  • advisory
    https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-25749
  • advisory
    https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-25749
  • article
    https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/0714b15940b245108e6e9d7aa2260dd849a26fa9
  • article
    https://github.com/vim/vim/releases/tag/v9.1.2132
  • article
    https://github.com/vim/vim/security/advisories/GHSA-5w93-4g67-mm43